National Republican., 1887-11-21

mechanism, ana found no God IN any OF tue /
mine But oh, the Christian doctots2 What
comfort they have been In many OF our house. |
holds. And they ought TO have warm place
Dear old DR.. skillman My fathers doctor |
my mothers doctor in the village homo. He |
carried al the condolences OF al
We all feit better as soon as we saw him enter |
the house. His face, pronounced beatitude
before he said word. He welcomed all OF
peoples eyes when they entered the last
sumber. think know what Christ said 70
him when the old doctor got through his his
Come ill., doctor. ! was sick and ye visited
me y bless God that the number of Chris.
tian physcians e multiplying,and some Of the
here to-day, and. hall you, and ] bless
beautiful, heaven descended work of Chris
plome from the Long Island Medical College,
to look after the .perishable body, be sure also
to get diploma from the skies to look after
clans unite with ministers of the Gospel In
persuading good people that II is not because
God is against them ths, they sometimes s, feel
1 suppose David, the psalmist, was no more
pious when he called on everything human
and angelic, animate and inanimato aud from
when he said; "out Of The depths Of hell have
/ cried unto Thee, D Lord or
that jeremiah o,S was any better when when
his Lame or that Job was any bet.
ter when he said, II know that my Redeemer
lySh than s when SSyere6 al oyer 70 G with .h the
Scratching the scabs off with broken piece Of
pottery; or that Alexander Cruden, the con.
coIdist, ives any better man when ne compiled
dents Of the Bible than when under the power
of physical disorder he was handcuned and
straitwaistcoated in Bethnal Green insane
asylum.
"Oh," says some Christian man, mo one
ought TO allow ply sioal disorder TO depress his
soul. lie ought to live so nearto God as to be
always in the sunshine" Yes, that is good
advice; but warrant that you, the man who
gives the advice, has sound liver. Thank
God every day for healthfu hepatic condition;
sometimes, like David, and like jeremiah, and
like Cowper, and like Alexander Cruden,
and like 10000 other invalids, he playing
YOU row play ToccGta, Ny object at this
point is not only TO emolliato the criticisms OF
the well against those in poor health, but 20
show Christian people VINO are atrabiarious
what is the matter with them. Do not charge
against the heart the crimes of another
portion Of your organism. Do not conclude
that because the path of heaven Is not arbored
| with as fine foliage or the banks beautifully
| showed under with exquisite echrysanthemums
as once. that, therefore, you are on the wrong
road The road will bring you out at the same
gate whether you walk with the stride of IN
| athlete or come up on crutches. Thousands
of Christians morbid about their experiences,
| ard morbid about their business, and morbid
| about the present and morbid about the fu.
ture, need the sermon am pow preaching.
ABother practical use Of this subject Is for the
young The theory Is abroad that they must
ilrst low their wild oats and afterwards. Mich
iean wheat. Let me break the delusIou.
Wild oats are generally sown in the liver
ehey 0e hs nH
for the implantation of a righteous crop. You
see aged men about us at eighty, erect, agile,
did they sow between eighteen years and
thirty? None, absolutely none. God does not
very often honor with old age those who have
In early life sacrificed swine on the altar OF the
bodily temple. Remember, o young man,
that while in after life and after years of dissi.
patton you, may perhaps have your heart
changed, religion does not change the liver.
Trembling and staggering along these streets
to- day are men. all bent. and decayed, and
prematurely old for the reason that they are
estate estate before they were thirty. BY early dis
sipation they put on their body u first mort
gage, and a second mortgage, and third
mortgage to the devil and these mortgages are
now being foreclosed, and all that remains o.
their earthly estate the undertaker will soor
put out Of sight. Many years ago. I,
tSTouRS heip lres and ed' it is there ''tuS yet
never never, never, That has q Sinai, but nc
was talking about He had in early life beer
Q aprofligate. and ho rises up on his thron,
Of worldly splendor to shrek q warning to al
, good in later life, cries out with an agony O
earnestness Remember not the sins of m,
. youth"
! stephen A. Douglass gave the name 9
,, west and took possession of lands aud hel
them by right OF preoccupation. Let iloc
Of sins settle on your heart before you set I
, keep possession oft by an Internal s1uatte
sovereignty. Il promise to pay at the ban
my life thirty years from date at the bank {
! tho grave" says every iniraetlon OF the law
! ofX9ur physical yS being ,o,, war o,mr,O,o,
n recover from early dissipation in this world
. = Never. How about the word TO Gomez Pc
y haps God will Tx y up in the resurrection bod
: so that It win not haye to go limping throuR
/, all eternity; but get the liver thoroughly dau
y aged and it will stay damaged; Physician
y call 1t cancer of the liver, or hardening of II
= of the liver, or fatty degeneration of the live
=, but Solomon put all these pnngs into one tigu
'es and says, It'll the dart strike through h
y liver"
y Hesiod seemed to have some hint of th
Il when he represented Promethens for his Grim
i, fastened to a pillar and an eagle feeding {
d his liver, which was renewed again each nigl
r so that the devouIing went on until final
q Hercules slew the eagle and rescued Prom
d iheus. And a dissipaied early life assures
/, ferocity pecking away and clawing away
l. only Hercules who can break the power of
d beak or unclcnch its claws. SO also Virt
IS and Homer wrote fables about vultures pre-!
n ing upon the liver. but there are those here
e day with whom 1t Is no fable, but terri
IS reality,
NJ smoking cigars has no idea that he is gettii
vs. for himself smoked liver. That young man b
4, no idea that he has by early dissipation so d
II pleted his energies that no will go into the b.
n y. days before II was fought. Had he attack
oi and taken 1t division by, division,
m until he had only one hundred tho
NJ sand men against two hundred thousar
,e And here Is young man who, If he put all
IN tions, in the strength of God might drive the
rit back, but he is allowing them 70 be re'enforc
nd by the. whole army OF mid-l!fe temptation
nt and when all these combined forces are mass
o. against him and no Grouehy comes to h
no HIM, and Blueher has come TO help his 70
r.. what but immortal defeat can await him.
Is. oh, my young brother, do not make the m
tn take that thousands all around you are ma
Il. ing, in opening the battle against sin too Ia
he for this world too late, and for the world
&C. come too late. What brings that expr
or hours late? They lost fifteen minutes early
VS. the route. and that affected them all
I'D way and they had to be switched of b,
IL here, and detained there, and the m
n who loses time and strength in the earl
IN part of the journey, of life win suffer for II
ld The way through. the first twenty years OF /
re damaging the following tifty years.
o. Some years ago scientific lecturer we
/. through the country exhibiting on great ca
he vas different parts OF the human body wh
b. healthy, and different parts when diseas
he And what the world wants now is some c
ds quent scientist to go through the coun
is showing 10 our young people on blazing c.
mt vas the dIunEaTd's liver, the idler's liver,
ar, libeItines liver. the gamblers liver. Perhf
lr- the spectacle might stop some young man
ire fore he comes to the same catastrophe and
,d, dart strike through his own liver
OF My heaIer, this Is the fret sermon you hs
,ct heard on the Gospel of Health, aud 1t may
the last you will ever hear on that subiC